COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel moved one step closer to history on Monday, when he was named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. Manziel, a former Kerrville Tivy star, will join Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o in New York this Saturday night starting 7 p.m. […]
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It was a busy day at the office for the Dynamo, who acquired a big center back – Eric Brunner – in exchange for allocation money. That story is already on chron.com. Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear had all his year-end meetings with the players today. It’s clear all the starters from the 2012 MLS Cup […]
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Texas A&M freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel will make Heisman history, if a Houston Chronicle survey is any indication. But it might be a close vote. In a national survey of 69 Heisman voters — from 21 states — Manziel received 38 first-place votes. Notre Dame senior linebacker Manti Te’o received 30 first-place votes, and Southern […]
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COLLEGE STATION – In what should be an award-filled week for Texas A&M, the honors started rolling in on Monday, with freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel earning AP SEC offensive player of the year honors, and Kevin Sumlin the coach of the year nod. Manziel, a Kerrville Tivy product who was also freshman of the year, […]
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Texans-Titans on Sunday did a preliminary Nielsen rating of 26.4 on KHOU (Channel 11), which equates to an average audience of 584,057 of Houston’s 2.2 million TV households. The MLS Cup final between the Dynamo and Galaxy on Saturday on ESPN did a 1.4 local rating. That’s not great, but it’s double what the Rockets-Jazz […]
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The Associated Press ARLINGTON — NBC broadcaster Bob Costas used his halftime segment on “Sunday Night Football” to advocate for gun control following this weekend’s murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, causing an immediate debate on social media. In a segment about 90 seconds long, Costas paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece […]
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The Texans and the Patriots, the two best teams in the AFC, going at it in Foxboro? This is going to be a fun week, as close to the playoffs as we will see until January. And yes, these are the two best teams in the conference. Forget what anybody tries to tell you about […]
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Texas and Oregon State have accepted bids to play in the Valero Alamo Bowl Dec. 29 at the Alamodome. The Longhorns became available after Northern Illinois earned the final bid into the BCS, ending Oklahoma’s hopes for an at-large spot. Alamo Bowl officials won’t complain as it will bring Texas to the local bowl game […]
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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M will renew an old acquaintance with a not-so-long-ago conference foe, as the Aggies will take on Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, it was announced tonight. The game is 7 p.m. on Jan. 4, a Friday night at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The contest will also pit first-year A&M coach Kevin […]
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